Please Help - Hen or Rooster?

[Squawking_Chicks]

Hi All, We are new chicken parents and have had some unfortunate luck with our first two pullets in which both turned out to be roosters. Now we are a little nervous with our new pullet possibly being another rooster since we heard what may have been some crowing this morning.

We feel that our Creme Legbar has the feather pattern of a hen, but the comb and face coloring are throwing us for a loop based on numerous photo and article research. We would appreciate any help in figuring out if we have a hen or rooster. She (or he) is around 5-6 months old. Thank you!

 

[Hanathehappyhen]

Looks like a hen to me! Did you get her as a pullet? Cream Legbars are an auto sexing breed, meaning you can tell their sex as chicks based on feather pattern. The girls have a complete brown 'chipmunk' stripe down their back, while the boys will have a broken one or none at all, and typically be lighter colored.

 

[rosemarythyme]

It's a pullet, CCL cockerels/roosters look very different from the girls.

 

[Squawking_Chicks]

Looks like a hen to me! Did you get her as a pullet? Cream Legbars are an auto sexing breed, meaning you can tell their sex as chicks based on feather pattern. The girls have a complete brown 'chipmunk' stripe down their back, while the boys will have a broken one or none at all, and typically be lighter colored.

Thank you for easing our nerves! Yes we did get her as a pullet. We are extra cautious because our first pullet was a creme legbar. With the excitement of being new chicken parents we assumed it was a hen but then around 5 months, it clearly was a rooster.

 

[Squawking_Chicks]

It's a pullet, CCL cockerels/roosters look very different from the girls.

Thank you!

 

[SwampPrincessChick]

Pullet. Cream Legbars are auto-sexing and the females have very different plumage color than the males. Your pullet does not have the correct coloring that a Cream Legbar must have, but she is close. Rounded hackles, rounded saddles, and the absence of sickles always means female (with the exception of breeds with hen-feathering, which is a gene that causes males to have rounded feathers and no sickles). Females can also have reddened, large comb and wattles. That is not a male-specific trait.

 

[Squawking_Chicks]

Hi All, We are new chicken parents and have had some unfortunate luck with our first two pullets in which both turned out to be roosters. Now we are a little nervous with our new pullet possibly being another rooster since we heard what may have been some crowing this morning.

We feel that our Creme Legbar has the feather pattern of a hen, but the comb and face coloring are throwing us for a loop based on numerous photo and article research. We would appreciate any help in figuring out if we have a hen or rooster. She (or he) is around 5-6 months old. Thank you!

Thank you all for your expertise and insight. We did hear some crowing around 7:30am today, 4-5 times. Since then she has been quiet for a couple hours now. Can she still be a pullet?

 

[SwampPrincessChick]

Thank you all for your expertise and insight. We did hear some crowing around 7:30am today, 4-5 times. Since then she has been quiet for a couple hours now. Can she still be a pullet?

We have already told you that there is no way that chicken is a male. If you are certain that the crowing came from her, then keep in mind it is not unheard of for a female to crow, especially when there is no male around. I have had many females crow randomly before for no reason, and I have males.